Widower’s Lament <br /> <br />white marble tombstone <br />high lit by silver moonlight <br /> but you are not there. <br /> <br />you are gone beyond <br />what mere mortal eyes can see. <br />yet I can recall. <br /> <br />at will how you looked <br />on the day that we were wed. <br /> I recreate you <br /> <br />momentarily <br />but I cannot hold you here. <br />you are gone from me. <br /> <br />arbitrarily <br /> cruel fate took you from me. <br />left alone I mourn. <br /> <br />for you constantly. <br />to love too well is to be <br /> hostage to fate. <br /> <br />but not to have loved <br />and never known togetherness <br />much too high a price. <br /> <br />we will meet again <br />though I know not where or when. <br />this thought comforts me. <br /> <br />here I meditate <br />quietly by pale moonlight. <br />what else can I do. <br /> <br />when we two were one <br />we fulfilled each others dreams. <br />now I am alone <br /> <br />I no longer dream <br /> but rely on my memories <br />of dreams that we shared. <br /> <br />when the moonlight fades <br /> reluctantly I must return <br />to my empty house <br /> <br />where no welcome waits <br /> there is none to care for me. <br />you were all I had. <br /> <br /> <br />Haiku format poem <br /> <br />4-Jul-08 <br />http: // blog.my space.com/poeticpiers<br /><br />ivor or ivor.e hogg<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/widowers-lament/
